Chinese Environmental Ethics and Whitehead’s Philosophy

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Zhihe Wang, M. Fan, J. Cobb
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Abstract

Environmental ethics is a major topic of discussion and enactment in China. The government is committed to work toward an “ecological civilization,” a society in which concerns for a healthy natural environment are interwoven with concerns for a healthy human society and healthy human relations with nature. Whereas in the United States concern for the environment is rarely consciously philosophical, Chinese history has made people aware that philosophy underlies and shapes public policy. Whitehead’s thought has been welcomed as a way of clarifying and supporting the commitment to ecological civilization, which has been strongly reemphasized by President Xi. It also helps in reviving and incorporating classical Chinese thought without threatening the great advances China has made in science. This organic thinking has expressed itself in government policy in shifting from the industrialization of agriculture to support for eco-villages and in dethroning GDP as the measure of progress. The interest in Whitehead is expressed by thirty-six universities setting up Centers for Process Studies, extensive discussion of a process book—Organic Marxism—and numerous other publications.
中国环境伦理与怀特海哲学
环境伦理在中国是一个重要的讨论和制定话题。政府致力于建设“生态文明”,在这个社会中,对健康的自然环境的关注与对健康的人类社会的关注以及对健康的人与自然关系的关注相互交织。在美国,人们很少有意识地从哲学角度考虑环境问题,而中国的历史让人们意识到,哲学是公共政策的基础和基础。它还有助于复兴和融合中国古典思想,而不会威胁到中国在科学方面取得的巨大进步。这种有机思维体现在政府的政策上,从农业产业化转向支持生态村,不再以GDP作为衡量进步的标准。36所大学建立了过程研究中心,广泛讨论了一本过程书——《有机马克思主义》——以及许多其他出版物,都表达了对怀特黑德的兴趣。
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